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TouchTone Tours - Personal Guides to a city using mobile phones. Run by ITP alum Steve Bull

Tag - Wireless game in Times Square

Urban Tapestries - “Public Authoring in the Wireless City” - space annotation project on a large scale. ITP alum Nick West is now working with them.

Can You See Me Now? - Location-tracking game using mobile phones and GPS, by Blast Theory

Uncle Roy All Around You - Sort of “Where’s Waldo?” but played in the streets, using SMS, webcams, and audio messaging.

The Go Game - role playing games meet mobile phones.

HipnTasty - Wireless entertainment apoplications aimed primarily at young women

Hypertag - Bluetooth/IR tags for short-range transmission to mobile phones, used to annotate spaces.

GPS Drawing - large scale drawing using GPS waypoints as dots in the drawing.

GeoStickies - a space annotation project on cell phones

AT&T Find Friends - delivers location of friends based on their position in the cellular network.

Thanks to Liz Goodman, Andrea Moed, and Aya Karpinska for the links.

Technorati Tags: architecture, cities, infrastructures, location systems, mobile telephony, networked objects, networks, games

Internet0 is an initiative at MIT, very like the Networked Objects class at ITP, but executed on a lower level of abstraction (i.e. all the engineeering is done from scratch, rather than using commercially available embedded net solutions).

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A few nifty network visualizations came up recently on the ITP alumni list:

Internet Traffic Report, reports traffic loads on servers around the world.

Touchgraph has some intersting visualizations of google links, liveJournal, and others.

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